David Bather Woods
@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social • author @uchicagopress.bsky.social
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social • author @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Arthur Schopenhauer
An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) almos...
press.uchicago.edu
It lives!
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
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New episode (1174), with Dr. David Bather Woods (@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social). We talk about his great new book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
#1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New episode (1174), with Dr. David Bather Woods (@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social). We talk about his great new book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
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Paul Chan on Schopenhauer 4columns.org/chan-paul/ar...
Arthur Schopenhauer
4columns.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Paul Chan on Schopenhauer 4columns.org/chan-paul/ar...
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Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy -
existentialcomics.com/comic/628
existentialcomics.com/comic/628
Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy -
existentialcomics.com/comic/628
existentialcomics.com/comic/628
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This Wednesday (12 Nov), join Professor Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow at the UOI, for a distinguished lecture
📍 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential
Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc
#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #Practicalethics
📍 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential
Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc
#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #Practicalethics
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This Wednesday (12 Nov), join Professor Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow at the UOI, for a distinguished lecture
📍 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential
Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc
#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #Practicalethics
📍 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential
Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc
#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #Practicalethics
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On episode 246, we welcome @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social to discuss the life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, how his father’s suicide shaped him, suffering as the source of compassion, happiness as the negation of pain, and why he believed life is worth living.
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On episode 246, we welcome @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social to discuss the life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, how his father’s suicide shaped him, suffering as the source of compassion, happiness as the negation of pain, and why he believed life is worth living.
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
My latest paper has reached 1000 views 🎉 Find out why Schopenhauer’s argument for the worst of all possible worlds isn’t as bad as everyone says👇
📣 New publication! 📣
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
@philoswarwick.bsky.social @thebshp.bsky.social
Schopenhauer’s worst of all possible worlds
Few are persuaded by Schopenhauer’s argument that ours is the worst of all possible worlds. In this paper, I propose and defend an alternative reading of Schopenhauer’s argument. According to my re...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My latest paper has reached 1000 views 🎉 Find out why Schopenhauer’s argument for the worst of all possible worlds isn’t as bad as everyone says👇
Reposted by David Bather Woods
HOW HAVE I NOT WATCHED THIS SHOW BEFORE
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
HOW HAVE I NOT WATCHED THIS SHOW BEFORE
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boosting this one again because I'm not seeing enough Bertrand Russell hate on the TL
New (anti Bertrand Russell) newsletter just dropped
wellreadherring.substack.com/p/the-timeli...
wellreadherring.substack.com/p/the-timeli...
The Timeliness of Bergson
Undoing pervasive misconceptions about Bergson's philosophy (I'm looking at you Bertrand Russell)
wellreadherring.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
boosting this one again because I'm not seeing enough Bertrand Russell hate on the TL
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First review of my new short biography of Wittgenstein, in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
First review of my new short biography of Wittgenstein, in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
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Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
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On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound | Little Atoms
shows.acast.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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#NewIssue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930...
#philsky #philosophy
Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930...
Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 42, No 5
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#NewIssue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930...
#philsky #philosophy
Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930...
Just got around to listening to this episode of Mindscape and it reminded me that this podcast always delivers! Such an interesting range of guest who have insights on big intellectual topics from unexpected angles.
Mindscape 325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence. Many fun stories on the route to founding Pixar and making digital cinema. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Just got around to listening to this episode of Mindscape and it reminded me that this podcast always delivers! Such an interesting range of guest who have insights on big intellectual topics from unexpected angles.
My wife has spent the last 2-3 months in hospital. She loves giving gifts and so of course she has set herself the task of creating bags of Halloween treats for the nurses and health care assistants working today. (I was in charge of distribution.)
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My wife has spent the last 2-3 months in hospital. She loves giving gifts and so of course she has set herself the task of creating bags of Halloween treats for the nurses and health care assistants working today. (I was in charge of distribution.)
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Congratulations @birchlse.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize! 👏
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations @birchlse.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize! 👏
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Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
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It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
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open.substack.com/pub/katemann... will definitely be getting this: thanks to Kate Manne for bringing it my attention. Such a sad bizarre awful case.
Living with Men
An excerpt from Manon Garcia's extraordinary new book on the Pelicot trial
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
open.substack.com/pub/katemann... will definitely be getting this: thanks to Kate Manne for bringing it my attention. Such a sad bizarre awful case.
Reposted by David Bather Woods
It lives!
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
Arthur Schopenhauer
An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) almos...
press.uchicago.edu
March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It lives!
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer.
Out in November.
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
Reposted by David Bather Woods
There's still time to book for our Annual Debate, which takes place in London this Thursday.
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
There's still time to book for our Annual Debate, which takes place in London this Thursday.
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
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AOS: philosophy of conspiracy theory
AOC: kierkegaard
is a fucking awesome job ad. hell yeah
AOC: kierkegaard
is a fucking awesome job ad. hell yeah
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
AOS: philosophy of conspiracy theory
AOC: kierkegaard
is a fucking awesome job ad. hell yeah
AOC: kierkegaard
is a fucking awesome job ad. hell yeah
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Come and work with us! Our Ethics of Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow on ‘Ethics of Doubt’ project
The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a Research Fellow in Philosophy on a two-year fixed-term basis, who will work on Prof. Genia Schönbaumsfeld’s ERC Advanced Grant project, ‘The Ethics of ...
jobs.soton.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Come and work with us! Our Ethics of Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
Strong agreement with Pascal in this week’s Vote on a Quote
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Strong agreement with Pascal in this week’s Vote on a Quote
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The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!
Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD
Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD
October 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!
Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD
Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD